Mercy Killing - Right or Wrong.

Mercy Killing is a topic which has been discussed and everyone have their views.

Today a 42year old Coma patient died and I feel what was the whole Idea of giving indirect and direct pain by keeping someone alive for 42 year old in a state which is as good as dead.

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Some excerpts from the article.--------------------------------------------------------- Protected content"Aruna Shanbaug, the former nurse at Mumbai’s King Edward Memorial hospital, who was sexually assaulted by a hospital ward boy in Protected content , died on Monday morning after being in a coma for the past 42 years.

Shanbaug, the 68-year-old, was in the Intensive Care unit of the hospital, where she had worked and was raped. Doctors had said that Shanbaug was suffering from pneumonia and was on ventilator support."

n January Protected content , the Supreme Court had responded to the plea for euthanasia filed by Aruna’s friend and journalist Pinki Virani, by setting up a medical panel to examine her. The court turned down the mercy killing petition, saying the hospital employees were “taking excellent care of her and want her to live”.